Yes, manofsan,
Sun is an innovative company.
Sun's Java is an example of a successful product that has yielded little profit.
An open-source platform would certainly speed up grid computer utilization.
Corporations and institutions with large numbers of mostly idle PC's may be interested in such a product.
Hopefully Sun is interested. If not some other group else will probably develop it.
The worldwide prevalence of mostly idle computers is a significant untapped resource.
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To achieve our goals, we need all computer processing power available.
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One of the most computational intensive problems in biology is the modeling of proteins.
Proteins are the nano-machines that carry out instructions coded in our DNA.
Understanding the structure and function of proteins is a key to reaching our goal.
"Examining the entire human genome could require up to 1,000,000 years of computational time on an up-to-date PC. Using a commercial 1000 node cluster would require 50 years and, while faster, would still be impractical."
"Only the grid will allow the scaling of this total procedure... to genomes
as large as the Human Genome."
http://www.grid.org/...s/hpf/about.htmHopefully, institutions like Stanford University (Folding@home) and forward-looking
corporations like IBM (Global Community Grid), have shown the way to solving this massive problem.
Right now, everyone with a computer has the capability to contribute to this key problem in understanding disease and life itself.
A contributor can join a team of like-minded contributors.
This helps to keep the effort in perspective.
The Extropy Institute is an example, many contributors are also members of ImmInst.
http://vspx27.stanfo...age&teamnum=346There are many teams. One can start a new team.
Mentioned in a previous post:
Reason, the founder of The Longevity Meme has concise description here:
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Enjoy folding with the Grid, or F@H, or with others.
It must be done, sooner is better.